Mary’s Landscape Art Info

We have had a string of cool, cloudy, rainy days recently. Cloudy is OK if the sun shines periodically enabling the artist to see shadows because shadows are important for landscape paintings to look natural. Cloudy is also OK if no shade is available because your canvas is not supposed to be in the sun. It gives the artist a false sense of color in that colors often appear to be lighter than they would in shade or indoors.

Recently, I found a quote by Winston Churchill that expresses how I feel. “A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint”.